Profile
Eli Zaretsky is Professor of at 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. He has taught at Lang College since 1999. His interests are in twentieth century cultural history, the theory and history of capitalism (especially its social and cultural dimensions), and the history of the family. His most recent book is Political Freud, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press. His earlier work includes听Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis听and Why America Needs a Left. He is the editor of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; and of Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life.
Degrees Held
PhD 1978, University of Maryland
Recent Publications
Books
听(Columbia University Press, 2015; paperback 2017)
(Cambridge; Polity Press, 2012)
French Translation:听听(Seuil, 2012)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
鈥,鈥澨Constellations, 2018, vol. 25, 165-170.听
鈥淐ontrol, Release and Sublimation: Cultural Freudianism in the 1920s,鈥 in听听ed. Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge University Press NY, 2017)
鈥淧sychoanalysis and Jewish History,鈥澨Encyclopedia of Jewish History听(forthcoming)
"From Psychoanalysis to Cybernetics: The Case of听Her."听American Imago听72, no. 2: 197-210, 2015.
鈥淔reud鈥檚 Theory of Memory,鈥 in Dimitri Nikulin,听, Oxford University Press, 2015.
鈥淲hat is Political History,鈥澨Reviews in American History, Autumn, 2013.
Rethinking the American Left,鈥澨Socialist Register, 2012 (Translation:听Merkur听2013).
鈥淧sychoanalysis, Authoritarianism and the 1960s,鈥 in Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin,听, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
鈥淧sychoanalysis, Vulnerability and War,鈥 in Adrienne Harris, ed.,听, 听(New York: Routledge, 2010),听Translated as Psychanalyse, vuln茅rabilit茅 et guerre, in Le Coq-鈥橦eron 201
鈥淣arcissism, Personal Life and Identity: The Place of the 1960s in the History of Psychoanalysis,鈥澨Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 13, (94-104) 2008
"Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism,鈥澨Constellations, 2008, 15 (3), pp, 366-381
听 听 听 听 听 听 听German translation:听Merkur, Spring, 2006
听 听 听 听 听 听 听French translation:听Actuel Marx, Autumn, 2006
听 听 听 听 听 听 听Polish Translation:听Przeglad Polityczny听(Political Review)
鈥淏eyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis and the Modern idea of Culture,鈥 in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin,听听(New York, Palgrave 2007)
鈥淔reud in the Twenty First Century,鈥 in听Zeitschrift f眉r Individualpsychologie听and听脰sterreichische Zeitschrift f眉r Volkskunde听(2007)听Joe Merlino, Freud at 150, (New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
"Psychoanalysis, the Family and Personal Life: Narcissism and the 'Relational Revolution' of the 1960,"听E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am茅rica Latina y el Caribe, Volume 18, Number 1, (2007). Special issue on transnational psychoanalysis.
鈥淭he Place of Psychoanalysis in the History of the Jews,鈥听Psychoanalysis and History, vol. 8, no. 2, 2006.
鈥淐ollective Memory and Narrative: A Response to Etkind,鈥澨Constellations, 16 (1), pp. 201-204
Media
"," co-author,听Public Seminar, June 4, 2020
Cited in "," Jacobin, May 28, 2020
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Interview: "," Boston Review, April19, 2012
Awards And Honors
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, August, 2005听
Robert J. Stoller Foundation Award, 1995 annual prize for the best essay on the subject of psychoanalysis awarded for "Bisexuality and the Ambivalent Legacy of Psychoanalysis."
Affiliated Scholar, Institut f眉r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, July - January, 1995